When posting your line (which I encourage, and we all should do) it's a great help to those you're asking if they connect if you put places and at least vague dates with those names, especially with common first names. For example, should you have a line where John Butcher is the father of Henry Butcher.....there are probably a number of times, historically, where that happens. If you specify that you're looking for the ones in Kentucky in 1870's, more or less, it's much easier for folks to tell right quick if it's likely to tie in with theirs (which might be John & Henry from 1920 Texas). Even easier if you're posting something like "John Butcher, 1820-1898, Lexington KY; Henry Butcher 1852-1931, Louisville, KY". (PS-those are made up names and dates, so if I accidentally hit your line---no, it's not in my data.<G>) Megan "Piglet" Zurawicz piglet@rootsweb.com RootsWeb Community Mentor and general dogsbody http://communities.rootsweb.com